Unit 3

• Bill of Rights

  • 1st 10 Amendments
  • Protects civil liberties
• Civil Liberties

  • Constitutionally established gurarantees and freedoms that protect citizens against arbituary gov. interference
• George Mason

  • Anti-Fed who purposed Bill of Rights
• 1st Amendment

  • Freedom of press, religion, assembly, and speech
• 2nd Amendment

  • Protects the right to bear arms
• 3rd Amendment

  • Citizens don't have to quarter soldiers in their homes
• 4th Amendment

  • No unreasonable searches
• 5th Amendment

  • Deals w/ rights of citizens when they are accussed of crimes
• 6th Amendment

  • How the process will go when a person is accussed of a crime
• 7th Amendment

  • Right to trial by jury
• 8th Amendment

  • No excessive punishment
• 9th Amendment

  • Implied rights
• 10 Amendment

  • Any powers not specifically given from the federal gov. are reserved to the states
• Selective Incorporation

  • The process by which the Bill of Rights is applied to the States
• 14th Amendment

  • States cannot enforce laws against citizens
• McDonald v. Chicago

  • States can have guns
  • 2nd Amendment
• 1st Amendment Freedom of Religion

  • Johnson Amendment - prohibits chruches from edorsing political campaigns
• Wisconsin v. Yoder

  • Violation of their right to free exercise
  • Amish ppl getting mad but they won lol
• Employment Division v. Smith

  • Religion can't be practiced if it's illegal
• Due Process of Law

  • 5th Amendment
  • No person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property
• Exclusionary Rule

  • 4th Amendment
  • Any evidence that's gathered in violation of the 4th Amendment can't be used in court
• Patriot Act

  • Metadata - communication
• Due Process and the Right to Privacy

  • The right to privacy is an implicit right
• Enumerated Rights

  • Zone of privacy
• Roe v. Wade

  • Women can have abortions because of their constitutional right to privacy
• Martin Luther King

  • 14th Amendment
  • Letter from Birmingham Jail - fuck the ppl who don't know what it's like to be oppressed upon
• 19th Amendment

  • The Feminine Mystique
• Equal Rights Movement

  • Title IX - women can have the same opportunities as men
• Clinton

  • "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"
  • Gay ppl can serve in the military but can't tell anyone
• Hatch Amendment

  • An old man trying to control women's bodies
• The Equal Protection Clause can support and motivate social movements for civil rights
• Separate but Equal Doctrine

  • Segragation
  • Plessy v. Ferguson
• Brown v. Board of Education

  • Segragation is bad
  • 14th amendment
• Civil Rights Act

  • Stop racism
• Majority-Minority District

  • A district in which the majority is a minority
• Shaw v. Reno

  • Racial gerrymandering is not allowed
• Affirmative Action

  • Describes policies enacted that favor groups that have been historically discriminated against
• Dejure Segragation

  • Racial discrimination by law
• De-Facto Segragation

  • Racial segration by personal choice
• Barron v. Baltimore

  • 5th Amendment - Due Process